Dream start to ADAC GT Masters finale in Hockenheim. Under a cloudless sky with temperatures nudging 15 degrees, the Ford GT made a speedy comeback in the Super Sports Cars League. The American flounder has not lost a single tenth of a second speed in a two-year break. Nico Verdonck and Frank Kechele in the Ford GT (Lambda Performance) posted best time of 1:39.829 minutes, beating the Corvette of Andreas Wirth and Daniel Keilwitz (Callaway Competition) by a mere 0.092 secs; Wirth and Keilwitz secured a double victory last year in Hockenheim. The level of competition was already huge in the first 60-minute session with just one second covering 14 supercars.

Luca Stolz and Tom Dillmann in the Bentley Continental GT3 (Bentley Team HTP) took the third fastest lap from the two Audi R8 LMS ultras of Stefan Wackerbauer/Kelvin van der Linde (C.Abt Racing) and Rahel Frey/Philip Geipel (YACO Racing). The second Bentley in the field made a good start to the final weekend. Clemens Schmid/Fabian Hamprecht (Bentley Team HTP) placed sixth ahead of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 of Hari Proczyk/Bernd Schneider (HP Racing) and the Audi R8 LMS ultra driven by Florian Stoll/Marc Basseng (kfzteile24 MS RACING).

The title contenders slotted into the midfield. Klaus Bachler, partnered by Christian Engelhart in the finale, finished ninth in the Porsche 911 GT3 R (GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport) and was 0.010 seconds up on the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 of championship leaders Luca Ludwig/Sebastian Asch (Team Zakspeed). Dominik Baumann came home in P13 along with Bruno Spengler in the BMW Z4 GT3 (BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert).